Wina Włodzimierza Olmera

Looking at Václav Gajer's filmography, a film archaeologist may feel somewhat sad. He didn't debut until after 1945 and spent the first half of the 1950s with hits such as The Smiling Country and Přicházejí z tmy. When looking at Vladimir Olmer's Guilt, we can, fortunately, look forward to Dreams for Sunday. The main roles are left to the young - and this time in the city, at the college, and in the night bar, and they are played brilliantly. Cupák is youthfully groping, Vránová is worldly to the point of shame, Fišer is reckless, the young Brejchová is still an unhatched chick and classic actors like Smolík and Pivec remind us that it is far from time for a generational change. The story is very reminiscent of Makovec's An Easy Life, which came to movie theaters a year later. Although still very much laced, Vladimir Olmer's Guilt is an interesting and valuable excursion into the psychology of today's people and their attitudes. Today, we may not be fleeing to Australia or abusing our classmates through various associations, unions, and meetings, but those bar ladies and girls are a constant, as is the gap between parents and children, and as is the gap between students and the ideals of their professors. (06.02.2019)